Horizon Europe 2025: EU Research Infrastructures
Funding available to build a world leading ecosystem of research services for researchers in Europe, up to €15m per project.
Opportunity Details
When
Registration Opens
06/05/2025
Registration Closes
18/09/2025
Award
Up to €15m per project, which can fund up to 100% of project costs depending on call type.
Organisation
Horizon Europe
This work programme supports activities to consolidate, evolve, open, integrate and interconnect a world leading ecosystem of research services for researchers in Europe, encompassing both national and pan-European infrastructures. The aim is to cover the continuum of needs from the creation of fundamental knowledge to technology development and innovation, while supporting open science.
The programme aims to improve the sustainability of the research infrastructures ecosystem and synergies amongst funding sources, support human resources and skills development for an optimal functioning of research infrastructures, and reinforce the international dimension of research infrastructures in particular with regards to shared global challenges.
Another key aim of the programme is to continue enabling transnational access to research infrastructure services with two main targets: curiosity driven research, and challenge-driven research (also considering the development of new or customised services, to better serve interdisciplinary approaches). It will also promote the educational and training dimensions of access to research infrastructures.
The programme promotes collaboration in the upgrading and design of scientific instruments and tools, including through cooperation with industry and through creating research infrastructure innovation ecosystems. Reduction of the environmental footprint of research infrastructures is also a focus.
For 2025, the Research Infrastructures work programme is structured around the following four destinations:
- INFRADEV – Consolidation and evolution of the European Research Infrastructure landscape, to develop an integrated European ecosystem of research infrastructures, including single-sited facilities, distributed facilities and networks of facilities providing joint services.
- INFRAEOSC – Enabling an operational, open and FAIR EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) ecosystem, to contribute to a web of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research data and provide a trusted and secure federated system of research data and services (EOSC Federation) for researchers in the EU and Associated Countries to store, share, process and reuse within and across disciplines and borders FAIR research outputs and tools for research, innovation and educational purposes.
- INFRASERV – Research infrastructures services to support health research, accelerate the green transition and the digital transformation, and advance frontier knowledge access to RIs, to support transnational access to state-of-the-art facilities for researchers, relevant for a large research domain or in support of societal challenge and EU priorities.
- INFRATECH – Next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools, methods, and advanced digital solutions of research infrastructures and foster innovation and cocreation with industry, to support research infrastructure needs for technology development to maintain and upgrade their services and to create new ones, and to support the Destination Earth initiative.
Details of the calls within each destination are given below. All of the calls in this topic are single-stage calls with a closing date of 18 Sep 2025.
UK organisations and businesses can apply for Horizon Europe funding, working as part of a three-country consortium with at least one member from within the EU (see “Who can apply?” below). If you are interested in one of the calls and would like to find a collaboration partner, contact Innovate UK Business Connect’s European Programmes team.
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In line with Horizon Europe, all the actions supported by this call are open to actors from EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries.
Unless otherwise provided for in the specific call/topic conditions, only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate in Horizon Europe actions provided that the consortium includes, as beneficiaries, three legal entities independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
- at least one independent legal entity established in a Member State;
- and at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries (this includes the UK).
Our European team can help you find eligible partners to form a consortium.
There may be further eligibility conditions for specific topics. Please check the Work Programme and contact our team to ensure your eligibility before applying.
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Potential applicants are also invited to sign up for the Horizon Europe Research Infrastructures info day on Monday 19 May, starting at 8am CET (7am UK time). The info day will offer information on the submission, evaluation and management of the 2025 Research Infrastructures calls. Further information and a programme will be available on the event page.
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Training and up-skilling of research infrastructures technical staff – €10m total budget, c.€1-1.5m per project
Early phase implementation of ESFRI [European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures] Projects that entered the ESFRI Roadmap in 2021 – €16.5m total budget, c.€1-1.5m per project
Consolidation of the Research Infrastructure landscape – Individual support for evolution, long term sustainability and emerging needs of pan-European research infrastructures – €30m total budget, c.€3-4m per project
Support to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures – €1.5-3m for a single project
Preparatory actions exploring future frameworks for research infrastructures investment plans and funding streams, for integrated and sustained scheme for access and for joint technology development – €4.5m total budget, c.€1-1.5m per project
(all single-stage calls with a closing date of 18 Sep 2025)
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EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) Nodes with federating capabilities for the EOSC Federation – €30m total budget, c.€6-8m per project
FAIR Integration for Enhanced Research Data in the EOSC ecosystem and beyond – €16m total budget, c.€5-8m per project
Advancing AI-readiness and Machine-Actionability in the EOSC Ecosystem – €15m total budget, c.€7.5-15m per project
Data stewards, skills and training for Open Science and FAIR practice – c.€5-8m for a single project
Using Generative AI (GenAI4EU) for Scientific Research via EOSC – €37.5m total budget, c.€7.5-10m per project
(all single-stage calls with a closing date of 18 Sep 2025)
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Research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing main challenges and EU priorities related to the health domain – €30m total budget, c.€10m per project
Research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing main challenges and EU priorities – €20m total budget, c.€5m per project
Research infrastructure services advancing frontier knowledge [specifically for: 1) atmospheric chemistry and dynamics or 2) hadron physics] – €20m total budget, c.€10m per project
Research infrastructure services advancing frontier knowledge (bottom-up) [wider scientific scope than the above call] – €20m total budget, c.€5m per project
(all single-stage calls with a closing date of 18 Sep 2025)
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New technologies and solutions for reducing the environmental and climate footprint of research infrastructures – €25m total budget, c.€5m per project
Implementing research infrastructure technology roadmaps – €45m total budget, c.€10m per project
AI-powered impact simulations in support of the Destination Earth initiative – €30m total budget, c.€7-10m per project
AI-generated digital twins for science – €40m total budget, c.€8-10m per project
(all single-stage calls with a closing date of 18 Sep 2025)
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Support for EOSC EU Node Service Verification and Validation activities – public procurement, c.€1m
External expertise 2025 [appointed independent experts for the evaluation and monitoring of actions]. – €0.2m, expert contracts to be issued
Details of these and how to bid will be available through Horizon Europe later in 2025.
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